Commonwealth v. Feczko

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a stop for failing to drive in a single lane requires probable cause
• holding that “[t]raffic stops based on a reasonable suspicion either of criminal activity or a violation of the Motor Vehicle Code … must serve a stated investigatory purpose”
• holding that for officers to stop a vehicle for a “stated investigatory purpose[,]” they must possess reasonable suspicion of “either criminal activity or a violation of the Motor Vehicle Code”
• holding that “an investigative stop of a moving vehicle . . . must be based upon objective facts creating a reasonable suspicion that the detained motorist is presently involved in criminal activity”
• stating that a vehicle stop must be based on reasonable suspicion of a Motor Vehicle Code violation or criminal activity afoot
• concluding that where a trooper testified that he witnessed the defendant “cross the double yellow center line . . . on two separate occasions as well as drift over the fog line” the trooper had probable cause to stop the defendant for a violation of section 3309(1)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).